Monologue____________
Editor-in-Chief makes technical, policy decisions
By Fritz Wenzel
Editor-in-Chief
The Print
The school year that is dwindling to
a close, (some might say dawdling), of­
fers new beginnings along with the en­
dings of the final days. The beginning
work of a new editor-in-chief for this
paper is one of them, and I start that
new job with this issue eagerly.
The position is really broken down
into two areas, the technical and the
editorial areas.
On the technical side, the editor has
the responsibility of making sure the
paper gets done in the first place,
which involves finding topics and sub­
jects to write about on slow news days,
covering the actions as they happen on
fast news days, and seeing that the
staff has all the help it needs both in
writing and layout. The heaviest
burden of the editor is the writing that
is required, but making sure the copy
that is turned in for publication by
others is fit to print is also very impor­
tant. We will be employing our com­
puterized spelling correction program,
and certain journalism classes will help
with other newspaper writing
mechanics. The facts of a story have to
be checked out by hand, and the editor
does a good bit of that.
Another great challenge of the editor
is to make sure the atmosphere in
which we work is kept positive, and
that people feel useful and respected.
The best writer in the world is no good
if his pen remains silent, (I think that
must have come from Shakespeare).
When advertisements are sold for
The Print, the editor assigns the place­
ment of those ads in the paper, unless
the business manager has sold the ad
based on a specific placement in the
paper.
The editor of any newspaper gets to
have an influence about what is called
editorial policy, and that area is
perhaps the most exciting to me. It
isn’t very often that a newspaper of our
size needs to refer to any major
editorial policy, such as who it might
support in an election, but everyday
decisions must be made about how an
event might be covered. Let me give an
example. This year the baseball team
on campus had a problem with some of
its players not going to practice, and at
least one was arrested for driving under
the influence of intoxicants and two
lesser charges. There was discussion
about whether the story should contain
the player’s name, and if not, why not.
The Print staff editors involved decid­
ed that the name should not be printed
because the player was not thought by
a majority of the editors to have done
anything that a normal student might
get caught doing. The fact that he was
representing the school this spring as a
player on scholarship was raised, but
not deemed a valid reason to print the
name.
News
Student activities suffer $6,000 budget cut
By Fritz Wenzel
Of The Print
The Department of Student
Activities has cut their budget
by about $6,000 in order to
cope with declining revenues
that resulted from less govern­
ment subsidy, less potential
for carry-over of funds from
the previous year and less in­
come from the Community
Center Recreation room.
Debbie Baker, director of
student activities for the Col­
lege, said in trying to set the
1985-86 budget for the depart­
ment she looked at what was
helping the most students, and
tried to cut what hurt the least.
In evaluating programs,
Baker said “what we end up
doing here at the College is not
putting on activities that are
going to attract the entire stu­
dent population, but rather we
hold activities that appeal to a
bunch of small gatherings of
people.” She explained the
end result is that everyone gets
something somewhere that
satisfies them, it just comes in
smaller portions.
An outdoor and wilderness
program has been cut from the
activities budget because the
position was cut a year earlier,
and an attempt to put the pro­
gram under the activities area
was not successful.
Various transfers of money
from one area, for instance,
the year-end activities ban­
quet, to another area have
been made, but Baker said the
banquet still has roughly the
same amount budgeted for
next year as they had this year.
In the journalism depart­
ment there was a hefty
decrease in funds earmarked
for part-time help, which used
to go to hire a typesetter. This
savings was possible because
the typesetting process has
become computerized to the
point where only a work-study
student is needed, instead of a
skilled typesetter. That savings
alone was more than $800.
The Associated Student
Government will be taking ad­
vantage of a trend in the for­
mat of dances that will, over a
three-year period, save the
department a lot of money,
Baker said. There is a trend
toward more video and taped
dances with a host, and the
College will be purchasing
equipment that will enable
them to hold dances without
more than a nominal cost.
There was a savings last year
of more than $1,000 in legal
fees paid to an attorney who
was on campus to help
students with various personal
legal questions or problems.
Baker said there have been
questions this year about what
had happened to the service,
but no one appeared upset
over the loss. Students needing
legal help are now referred to
legal aid programs that are
already in existence, but off
campus.
Finals-Finals-Finals
Finals week is scheduled for
June 10-15. Exam times are as
follows:
Classes beginning Monday
at 8 a.m. will have exams on
Monday, June 10 from 8-10
a.m.; classes beginning 10
a.m., 10 a.m. to noon; beginn­
ing noon, noon-2 p.m.; begin­
ning 2 p.m., 2-4 p.m.; and
Wednesday, June 5,1985
conflicts with exam times, 4-6
p.m.
Classes beginning Tuesday
at 7:30 a.m. will have exams
on Tuesday, June 11 from
8-10 a.m.; classes beginning 9
a.m., 10 a.m. to noon; beginn­
ing 10:30 a.m., noon-2 p.m.;
beginning 1 p.m., 2-4 p.m.;
beginning 2:30 p.m., 4-6 p.m.
Classes beginning Monday
at 9 a.m. will have exams on
Wednesday, June 12 from
8-10 a.m.; classes beginning 11
a.m., 10 a.m. to noon; beginn­
ing 1 p.m., noon-2 p.m.;
beginning 3 p.m., 2-4 p.m.;
and conflicts with exam times
4-6 p.m.
Students with additonal
questions are advised to see
their instructors.
ORGANIC ERUPTION-a Ione thistle, located near the trailers,
forces its way through a crevice in the concrete.
Photo by Dan Wheeler
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